Whether you're moving to Sweden’s second biggest city for the first time or are looking for another neighbourhood, The Local talks you through some of your best options.
What do I do and who am I when nature goes to rest? The Local's contributor Anne Grietje Franssen writes about life in the Gothenburg archipelago this time of the year, when the Swedish winter makes it feel like there's no end in sight.
Gothenburg, Sweden’s unassuming second city, lacks the self-evident tourist attractions of Stockholm, so it can be hard to know how to impress visiting parents (or friends or partners for that matter). Here’s how to convince visiting loved-ones that moving to Sweden’s drizzly west coast it wasn’t such a bad call after all.
The independent MP Amineh Kakabaveh tells The Local why Sweden should immediately withdraw from the Nato accession negotiations to protect its "values and dignity".
Friluftsliv is a Scandinavian concept translating roughly as 'life in the open air'. Never had I come across the term before moving to Sweden. It was only years later, when my Dutch existence felt like a distant past, that I realised that this Scandinavian concept amounted, more or less, to my impetus to drift.
Sweden's natural forests, and those who are dependent on them, have come under high pressure in recent years. Does intensive forestry endanger the livelihood of the indigenous Sámi, as well as biodiversity and the climate? Freelance journalist Anne-Grietje Franssen investigates.
Sweden may not be known for its wine, but it now boasts around 40 commercial vineyards. Do farmers manage to earn a living, can climate change benefit their business, and does the wine actually taste good? Anne Grietje Franssen investigates.
"The climate crisis is not something that belongs to the future – we’re living it now," one of the authors of the recent IPCC report tells The Local's contributor Anne Grietje Franssen. How has Sweden been affected, and what will happen next?
The results of Sweden's Sami parliamentary elections are expected next week and land rights of the indigenous people are just one of the key issues in question.
The Swedish armed forces have been ramping up their military exercises in recent years to face a "deteriorated" security situation. But residents in the west coast archipelago say the growing presence of troops in the islands makes their home feel almost like a "war zone".
Sweden-founded furniture giant Ikea aims to be climate positive by 2030. In ten years, all products must be made from renewable or recycled materials and designed to be reused, resold or recycled. A store in Eskilstuna is trying to find out what works – and what doesn't.
After years of increasingly violent gang crime in Malmö, the southern Swedish city was faced with little choice but to try something new. Here's how police, city officials, organisations and members of the public worked together to sharply reduce the number of shootings.
Children aged under 16 in Sweden still go to school, despite the coronavirus crisis. Working from home is not an option for educators and social distancing proves difficult at schools.
Residents of a so-called 'million programme' apartment complex from the 1960s in Gothenburg have collectively turned the building into an energy-efficient home, where energy needed to heat the building has decreased by 90 percent.
Sweden is universally thought of as an equality paradise. Economic historian Erik Bengtsson now disproves the belief that this Swedish egalitarianism is rooted in a centuries-old tradition: "Sweden used to excel in inequality."
Our society romanticizes silence, yet simultaneously we seem terrified of it, writes Anne Grietje Franssen, who booked a 72-hour glass cabin in Dalsland in her search for silence.
Early Swedish projections that a level of coronavirus immunity in the population would give it an advantage during the second wave of the virus appear to have been proved wrong.
Since the onset of the pandemic, the idea of a 'Nordic unity' has been difficult to sustain. Why do we speak of Northern Europe as a separate entity and, if these countries are so similar, what explains the divergences in approach to the coronavirus crisis?
Residents of Canada, Georgia and Tunisia, who were earlier exempted from a ban to enter the EU through Sweden, are no longer automatically allowed into the country.
Travel this summer will look different, with restrictions in place globally. The oncoming months won't feature any of the usual large events and festivals within Sweden, and you may even prefer to avoid domestic travel. Here's how you still can visit Sweden's west coast city of Gothenburg without ever stepping outside your front door.
Sweden's care homes have been the setting for the majority of the country's coronavirus deaths. A new report looks into how the facilities acted to deal with the crisis, and where the sector faced obstacles in protecting and caring for the elderly.
‘Laugh or die’, has been the command many Swedes have lived by for the last couple of decades. But an increasing number of people in Sweden seems to be fed up with this optimism creed. Anne Grietje Franssen explores the growing movement calling for a healthy dose of pessimism.
